 | Thomas Philip Terry - 1909 - 110 ページ
...fair empress with her coronal of pearls — the fair city of Mexico, with her white towers and her pyramidal temples, reposing, as it were, on the bosom...waters — the far-famed ' Venice of the Aztecs.' "The 8th of Nov. was a conspicuous day in the history of Mexico. With the first faint streaks of dawn,... | |
 | Thomas Philip Terry - 1909 - 928 ページ
...fair empress with her coronal of pearls — the fair city of Mexico, with her white towers and her pyramidal temples, reposing, as it were, on the bosom...waters — the far-famed ' Venice of the Aztecs.' "The 8th of Nov. was a conspicuous day in the history of Mexico. With the first faint streaks of dawn,... | |
 | Thomas Philip Terry - 1909 - 114 ページ
...fair empress with her coronal of pearls — the fair city of Mexico, with her white towers and ner pyramidal temples, reposing, as it were, on the bosom...waters — the far-famed ' Venice of the Aztecs.' "The 8th of Nov. was a conspicuous day in the history of Mexico. With the first faint streaks of dawn,... | |
 | Robert McNutt McElroy - 1914 - 452 ページ
...great basin were beheld the lakes, occupying then a much larger portion of its surface than at present; their borders thickly studded with towns and hamlets,...waters, — the far-famed 'Venice of the Aztecs.' High over all, rose the royal hill of Chapultepec, the residence of the Mexican monarchs, crowned with... | |
 | 1919 - 478 ページ
...great basin were beheld the lakes, occupying then a much larger portion of its surface than at present; their borders thickly studded with towns and hamlets,...waters, — the far-famed "Venice of the Aztecs." High over all rose the royal hill of Chapultepec, the residence of the Mexican monarchs, crowned with... | |
 | Thomas Philip Terry - 1922 - 1068 ページ
...fair empress with her coronal of pearls — the fair city of Mexico, with her white towers and her pyramidal temples, reposing, as it were, on the bosom...waters — the far-famed ' Venice of the Aztecs." "The 8th of Nov. was a conspicuous day in the history of Mexico. With the first faint streaks of dawn,... | |
 | Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch - 1925 - 1124 ページ
...basin were beheld the lakes, occupying then a much larger portion of its surface than at present ; their borders thickly studded with towns and hamlets,...the waters — the far-famed ' Venice of the Aztecs '. High over all rose the royal hill of Chapoltepec, the residence of the Mexican monarchs, crowned... | |
 | John Bennett Black - 1926 - 220 ページ
...then a much larger portion of its surface than at present ; their borders thickly studded with towers and hamlets, and, in the midst — like some Indian...waters — the far-famed " Venice of the Aztecs." ... It was like the spectacle which greeted the eyes of Moses from the summit of Pisgah, and in the... | |
 | Robert E. Anderson - 1915 - 424 ページ
...woods and forests. "In the midst, like some Indian empress with her coronal of pearls, the fair city with her white towers and pyramidal temples, reposing...the waters — the far-famed 'Venice of the Aztecs.' " This view of the "Promised Land" will remind some of the picturesque account given by Livy (xxi,... | |
 | Thomas Philip Terry - 1927 - 1066 ページ
...fair empress with her coronal of pearls — the fair city of Mexico, with her white towers and her pyramidal temples, reposing, as it were, on the bosom...waters — the far-famed ' Venice of the Aztecs.' "The 8th of Nov. was a conspicuous day in the history of Mexico. With the first faint streaks of dawn,... | |
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In the centre of the great basin were beheld the lakes, occupying then a much larger portion of its surface than at present; their borders thickly studded with towns and hamlets, and. in the midst, — like some Indian empress with her coronal of pearls,... 
